Canmore Sprints

[Dell Todd]

Yes ! After a shocker from the ladies (no US women advanced, I'm sad), Koos & Newell qualified with a 7th (Torin) and a 16th (Andy).

Sweet. I'm sure they are pedaling their Schwinn Aerodynes right now between rounds.

Hope we can get a sort of real time forum thread going here.

By the way, good to read the backstory on Kuzzy, going with the front group in the first lap of his pursuit race. Way to show some courage, not afraid of the biggest race of his young life. Looks like he blew a gasket, picked up some valuable experience. I applaud that. I hope the US skiers who have not had a good race yet are able to put something together that they can feel good about in their next races.

Dell

[jcork]

Chris Cook in at 30th as well.

Many props to junior Reid Pletcher for his 35th, qualifying faster than Zorzi, Darragon and whole bunch of other racers.

Vahur Teppan from Estonia (29th) attends University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

Real-time results at: http://www.sportresult.com/sports/cc/cc.asp

[Dell Todd]

Good - a loud shout out to Cook for qualifying. I saw those names after my post. Thanks for clarifying. That is hot. i'm not used to looking thru sprint results for anyone besides Torin & Andy. This is great ! How long do we have to wait for the next rounds ? Anyone know ?

[Dell Todd]

From the excellent fasterskier.com world cup blog on the sprints:

1:13 MST, third men’s heat. Nowegians Tor Arne Hetland and Oeystein Petterson advance. Andy Newell (USA) finished fourth.
1:07 MST, second men’s heat. Eldar Roenning (NOR) and Emil Joensson (SWE) advance. Torin Koos (USA) broke a pole early on, and by the time he got another one was way back. Phil Widmer (CAN) tripped on the hairpin turn, and was out of the race.

US is out. Dang. Onward day after tomorrow the crew gets to race again.

[jcork]

3 top 30 officially no longer a good day

Good point. I was pretty disappointed with the results (not the skiers -- the results). Looking forward to better days, which I know everyone up there can deliver.

I respect USST's goals, and I respect their approach to doing things our way, and not just copying what the Europeans are going. I try to coach in that manner as well. That being said ... um, what are the Norwegian men doing that gets them 1-2-3-4-5-10? That is ridiculous.

[Roger Knight]

Dell-
Great to see three in the top 30 in that men's race. Apparently the call was skate skis and we didn't make it....oh well it happens.
As for Kuzzy, I saw that story too....on skinnnyski.com from the CXC prez.....but I watched the race online live and Garrott didn't exchange an ywhere near the lead group as the story said. I'm not taking anything away from Kuzzy, because he's a friend and a good man, but that story is false to the core. Do you think it was spin or just a guy who'd never been to a World Cup getting fired up and not having a real feel for the race? Just curious, because when I read it I thought it odd....

[Joe Howdy]

From what I saw of the article on Kuzzy (I could be reading the wrong one), it said he was with the leaders on the first lap, which would mean he dropped off the pace with three 3.75K laps until the switch, which would explain why you didn't see him at the switch.